Applications of virtual reality for visually impaired people

WSEAS Transactions on Computers

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 184-193

  Torres Gil, M A ^a   Casanova Gonzalez, O ^a   Gonzalez Mora, J L ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic position tracker; Spatial sound; Virtual reality; Visually impaired

Indexed keywords

3D SENSOR; 3D TRACKING; ACOUSTIC INFORMATION; ACOUSTIC PERCEPTION; AUDITORY REPRESENTATION; ENVIRONMENT RECOGNITION; HARDWARE INTEGRATIONS; POSITION TRACKER; SPATIAL SOUND; USER INTERACTION; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; VIRTUAL REALITY SIMULATOR; VIRTUAL WORLDS; VISUALLY IMPAIRED; VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEOPLE; VISUALLY-IMPAIRED USERS; WALKING THROUGH;

SIMULATORS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 77950157934     PISSN: 11092750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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